The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unexpected Journey, sentence 121
His hands were incased in reindeer gloves of wondrous warmth and beauty; and on his head was the finest cap that had ever been seen—a cap which his father and grandfather had worn in their youth when they went wooing.
Who acts: father · What happens: incas, be, see, wear, go, woo · To what, where: hands, reindeer gloves, finest cap, head, cap, youth
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Unexpected Journey. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 hands | nmod:poss |
| 2 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 incased | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 incased | aux:pass |
| 4 | incased | incas | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 gloves | case |
| 6 | reindeer | reindeer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gloves | compound |
| 7 | gloves | glove | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 incased | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 warmth | case |
| 9 | wondrous | wondrous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 warmth | amod |
| 10 | warmth | warmth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gloves | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 beauty | cc |
| 12 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 warmth | conj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 cap | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 cap | cc |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 head | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 head | nmod:poss |
| 17 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 cap | obl |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 cap | cop |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 cap | det |
| 20 | finest | fine | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 21 cap | amod |
| 21 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 incased | parataxis |
| 22 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 seen | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 seen | aux |
| 24 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 26 seen | advmod |
| 25 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 26 seen | aux:pass |
| 26 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 cap | acl:relcl |
| 27 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 cap | punct |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 cap | det |
| 29 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 incased | parataxis |
| 30 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 worn | obj |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 father | nmod:poss |
| 32 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 worn | nsubj |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 grandfather | cc |
| 34 | grandfather | grandfather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 father | conj |
| 35 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 worn | aux |
| 36 | worn | wear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 29 cap | acl:relcl |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 youth | case |
| 38 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 youth | nmod:poss |
| 39 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 worn | obl |
| 40 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 42 went | advmod |
| 41 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 went | nsubj |
| 42 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 worn | advcl |
| 43 | wooing | woo | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 42 went | xcomp |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 incased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | incas | past · passive | Smith's hands | reindeer gloves of wondrous warmth and beauty | a cap parataxis | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a | past | the finest cap | Smith's head | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | see | past · perfect · passive | the finest cap | ever | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | wear | past · perfect | Smith's father and grandfather | a cap | father's youth | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent which=Source | |||
| 5 | go | past | father | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | woo | gerund | father not said here | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 66819 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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